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Primary Source Analysis: Appeasement
Document A: Chamberlain
1. (Sourcing) When and where did this speech take place? What was Chamberlain’s goal for the
Munich Agreement?
2. (Context) Why might people in England in 1938 have supported appeasement?
3. (Close reading) What did Chamberlain claim England should do while pursuing the policy of
appeasement?
Document B: Churchill
4. (Sourcing) When and where did this speech take place? What was Churchill’s purpose?
5. (Close reading) What did Churchill mean when he said that instead of being forced to “snatch”
his “victuals from the table,” Hitler had “them served to him course by course”?
6. (Context) In the second paragraph, what did Churchill claim could have prevented Germany
from taking the Sudetenland? Did he offer any evidence for this claim?
7. (Context) What did Churchill predict will happen in Czechoslovakia?